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The Role of Foreign Assistance
in Conflict Prevention


January 2001 Conference Report
Table of Contents

Session I: The Rationale for Change and a Vision for the Future

Session II: The New Paradigm on the Role of Foreign Assistance and U.S. Priorities in the Post-Cold War Millennium: Re-defining U.S. Needs and Understanding the Role of Development Assistance in Conflict Prevention

Session III: Addressing the Root Causes of Conflict and Building the Basis for Cooperative Order and Free Societies

Session IV: Coordinating a More Effective Conflict Prevention and Crises Response Capacity within the U.S. Government

Session V: The Challenge for Development Assistance: How We Work in an Increasingly Unstable World of Pre- and Post-Conflict Transitions

Session VI: Emerging Threats: New Dimensions of Instability and Violent Conflict and a More Integrated Prevention and Response Capacity

Conclusions: Defining a Vision for U.S. National Security Needs and Foreign Policy Framework for the Year 2020 & Creating a Supporting Foreign Assistance Strategy


Appendices D through I contain the actual papers presented during the above sessions.

Appendix A: Conference Agenda

Appendix B: Biographies of Presenters

Appendix C: Participant List

Appendix D: Preventing Contemporary Intergroup Violence, David Hamburg, Carnegie Corporation

Appendix E: Rethinking Development Assistance and the Role of AID in U.S. Foreign Policy, Jane Holl Lute, United Nations Foundation / Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

Appendix F: Building Foundations for Cooperative Behavior Through U.S. Foreign Aid, Robert Hawkins, Institute for Contemporary Studies

Appendix G: International Constraints and Indigenous Strengths in Preventive Development, Jonathan Moore, United Nations Development Program

Appendix H: How Do We Change the Way We Use Foreign Assistance to Help Prevent Deadly Conflicts?, Ted Morse, United States Agency for International Development

Appendix I: Defining U.S. National Security for the Next Generation, John C. Gannon, National Intelligence Council

Appendix J: Developing a More Effective Conflict Prevention Capacity in an Increasingly Unstable World, Randolph Pherson, Evidence Based Research, Inc.

Note: All photos from this conference are courtesy of Rachel Edmonds and Janine Rowe, Woodrow Wilson Center.

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Last Updated on: March 23, 2001